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This story is about something really creepy and disgusting. It is about routinely using people as batteries to power devices.

What comes to my mind is the prospect of an ironic ending to the famous depiction of evolution, the one where the neanderthal gradually turns into a straight-walking modern man, etc. It looks like if our self-appointed global managers with eugenicist tendencies get their way, the next phase of human evolution could be a battery!

A biological battery powering the digitized system of domination! Not a metaphorical battery where the masters get to syphon off peoples life energy and turn it into profits but a literal battery!

The concept of Human Battery puts the transhumanist slogan about the need to merge with machines or be left behind in the evolution of the human species in a sinister context. (Not that the slogan needed any additional context to sound like eugenics. Seriously who are you, Mr. Transhumanist, to consider yourself in charge of human evolution? Who appointed you?) But here is the context: What if being left behind means being turned into batteries?

Come, come, useless eater, stop being so useless! Put your body to work, useless eater, antivaxxer, grandma killer, planet killer! We have many useful machines to feed in our Fourth Industrial Revolution! Come, come, useless eater!

Now, an important philosophical distinction: My indignation is over the scope and the intention of their proposal. If this were merely about a neat little invention, a useful little emergency device that allows you to charge your phone from your body when you are stuck in the middle of nowhere, and your phone has just died fine, that can be reasonable!

If it were simply about the existence of an emergency device that we could use once in a blue moon, on our terms, when needed, it wouldnt be a problem. But in the realistic world we are living in, this is going the way of the Matrix! Human batteries are a very neat foray into the twisted world of human capital and impact investment, not to mention good ol energy harvesting! To quote my 2020 article about the Great Reset for Dummies:

Lets talk about human capital. In the new world, human capital is not just a metaphor for HR or labor. Microsoft, for example, has a patent for a method of transforming human behavior into cryptocurrency, which is done through an unspecified device coupled with a server that registers body activity and mines crypto.

Since under the New Normal, digital and crypto are supposed to become mainstream, this looks suspiciously like a tool that can be used both to tightly control the behavior of the poor who may depend on this for income and to literally mine the bodies of otherwise useless welfare dependents / UBI recipients for energy.

Furthermore, this patent could potentially be used to create a new financial instrument because, if mined for energy, these people become assets that could possibly be bunched together into virtual portfolios and virtually traded. See how neat?

Now, we are talking proper serfdom! And yes, this sounds very sci-fi but lets not forget how some billionaire visionaries think not like normal people, or else the workers at Amazon warehouses wouldnt be wearing diapers to skip bathroom breaks. Also lets not forget that today, there is trading of very theoretical items as well as betting on weather.

I mean, we shouldnt be surprised by the intention to abuse us, this is how our civilization has been functioning for a long time. But it doesnt make our pain today any less!

In their clever and prophetic 2015 article, the World Economic Forum repackages what sounds a bit like feudalism and makes it sound like a fun activity for the peasants. (Its easy to be prophetic when you hold the policy makers by the balls! Oops, I said the quiet part out loud, sorry.)

Via tricky language, the WEF narrative transforms our basic human existence and the things we do every day as happy, yokeless people, for our joy and on our own volition in other words as useless eaters into potentially useful energy-generating activities, that corporations, the bureaucrats, and the rich investors can exploit.

They subtly reframe the normal things that we do for ourselves in the manner of none of your Davos business as human energy powered activities, an economic area that they can then parasitically tap into (first, with their gentle pinkie, and then with their entire army of bulldozers). Heres from the horses mouth:

Human power used to be all the rage. 150 years ago [roughly around the time when slavery and serfdom were abolished in both of my homelands, America and Russia?], products that relied on human energy such as the bicycle, pedal-powered lathe or sewing machine could be found in most households [a great exaggeration about the availability of bicycles, but fine]. But as electro-mechanical motors developed, reliance on human-powered products gradually diminished.

Today, human power is not appropriately recognised for its potential as an alternative solution to our growing energy needs. Indeed, as we search for more renewable energy sources, is it possible to abandon using traditional electricity for certain tasks and return to human power? [yay, feudalism!]

The way that more and more products are becoming digital and even internet-connected makes this a challenge. But humans emit energy that can easily be harnessed from our everyday behaviour.

And here is a sweet incentive: Human-powered products also have the potential to encourage us to become more physically active Using human-powered products as a countermeasure to our increasingly sedentary lifestyles could create a credible new perspective towards exercise as an alternative energy source.

In some respects, human-power can be seen as the cleanest renewable energy source available, with great potential for helping people stay healthy and have fun. [Awwww, how about introducing a Ministry of Fun? A human-energy-powered Ministry of Fun? Just a thought.]

The article then talks about a concept, appropriately called, parasitic harvesting: Generating power from peoples normal activities such as walking is known as parasitic harvesting. One example of this in action is a handheld tube-shaped device that clips to your belt and backpack and generates electricity as you move around, using a magnet weight, spring, and inductive coil.

What a great idea! Given how subtle our cellular processes are, and how electromagnetic frequencies are such an important language for our bodies, it makes so much sense to walk around with a magnet and inductive coils on our body, while also bathing in the electromagnetic soup from the 5G towers and digital devices!

Sadly, it sounds like theyve lost their marbles. Either that or, like any literal or metaphorical slave owners, they only care about our well-being to the extent that our well-being impacts their profits.

Oh, and they say, we can power our wearables. Well, do we really need our wearables that badly? At that price? Maybe not? And it could be true that in rare occasions, people may need medical implants or wearables but are our aspiring masters counting on everyone being sick and needing a medical implant or wearable?

Are they planning to make everyone so sick that we will all need mothership-reporting medical wearables to keep us alive? Oh and sorry a grandma killer question what happened to our fun and healthy physical activity during the lockdown?

And here is a neat little video from 2021, accompanied by a touching, inspirational soundtrack:

The article, titled, New wearable device turns the body into a battery explains the invention further:

Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery. The device, described today in the journal Science Advances, is stretchy enough that you can wear it like a ring, a bracelet or any other accessory that touches your skin. It also taps into a persons natural heat employing thermoelectric generators to convert the bodys internal temperature into electricity.

According to IEEE Digital Library, not only can wearable devices use vibration energy to charge their own batteries, but they could one day have a big impact on our communities.

Thats the conclusion reached by a group of international researchers experimenting with kinetic energy harvesting. The group comprised of researchers from the University of New South Wales and the University of Queensland sees potential to use the method as a valuable tool for things like urban planning and development by detecting peoples modes of transportation [emphasis mine].

Transportation mode detection [emphasis mine] is important to our communities, says Sara Khalifa, researcher from Data61|CSIRO, Australia.

It allows researchers to consistently and reliably collect information on individuals traveling behavior [emphasis mine] to inform urban design, real-time journey planning, human activity monitoring [emphasis mine], CO2 emissions, targeted advertising and more. In other words, well pay for our own surveillance and monitoring! Now, thats fun!

Speaking of paying, lets please revisit the Microsoft patent: Here is the summary:

Human body activity associated with a task provided to a user may be used in a mining process of a cryptocurrency system. A server may provide a task to a device of a user which is communicatively coupled to the server. A sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user. Body activity data may be generated based on the sensed body activity of the user.

The cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user may verify if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system, and award cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.

Heres more detail:

A virtual currency (also known as a digital currency) is a medium of exchange implemented through the Internet generally, not tied to a specific government-backed flat (printed) currency such as the U.S. dollar or the Euro, and typically designed to allow instantaneous transactions and borderless transfer of ownership.

One example of virtual currency is cryptocurrency, wherein cryptography is used to secure transactions and to control the creation of new units

A brain wave or body heat emitted from the user when the user performs the task provided by an information or service provider, such as viewing advertisement or using certain internet services, can be used in the mining process.

Instead of massive computation work required by some conventional cryptocurrency systems, data generated based on the body activity of the user can be a proof-of-work, and therefore, a user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously. Accordingly, certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure may reduce computational energy for the mining process as well as make the mining process faster.

By the way, the word mining is very appropriate here. Isnt it the mechanism that turns vibrant land into wasteland? And will our master care when it happens to our bodies?

For living beings, electricity is a very important language that our bodies use for internal and external communications, and for many critical functions. Lots been said and written about it but perhaps The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg is an excellent starting point.

Modern scientists are babies when it comes to understanding the subtleties of our bodies and our interaction with the world. Why do they assume that the energy that our body emits is a waste? How do they know its a waste? How do they know that is serves no purpose? Is there such a thing in nature as waste?

Oh and how long until we are instructed to keep ourselves in shape to be efficient batteries for our feudal masters?

According to the WEF viewpoint, we are not just living our lives. We produce and spend energy. We dont just go about our day and do various things because we want to do them. We move around as power generators, as human machines, on a giant conveyor. We must be efficient.

They, the hungry messengers of the spirit of domination, are annoyed with every moment and every inch of our free and independent existence! And of course they have been annoyed with it for centuries and throughout the centuries, theyve being abusing different groups of people, with the same existential cruelty, trying to put people to use, without any respect for the spirit. Our independent existence is their lost profits! How dare we!

They dont want to leave any room for our unmonetized, unmonitored freedom. These people are mental. They are pathetic, anxious, greedy, sorry, mechanical zombies. At the root of it, they are not even scary, just pathetic (although they are capable of creating great carnage, and thats the scary part about their spiritual illness).

I am not angry, anger is not productive. But I am surely appalled! Their plight is in defiance of how we as human beings are intended to live, in harmony with the spirit, with nature, and with each other. They have really lost their marbles somewhere down the road! They are out of their minds, these messengers of the ghost of domination!

The task that we are looking at is challenging and humbling. I think that they are existentially allowed to temporarily mess with us so that we remember that the system of domination was never right. It was not right a thousand years ago, it was not right five hundred years ago, and it is not right today. Today, we feel it with our own souls and our own flesh really badly and it was never right.

And its time to remember that we are the children of spirit and Earth, just like many who came before us and faced the Machine. I, for one, am disgusted with the psychopaths but I am not afraid because we are love, and where there is love, there are no human batteries and no fear.

To find more of Tessa Lenas work, be sure to check out her bio, Tessa Fights Robots.

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The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale de Venezia is making a splash upon its long-awaited return. After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual art exhibition is back on the scene with pieces representing artists and countries from around the world.

Consisting of a total of 200 artists from 58 countries, the Biennale was curated by Cecelia Alemani and is itself entitled The Milk of Dreams. The title draws its inspiration from the title of a book by surrealist artist Leona Carrington, which Alemani describes as being an exploration of a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of imagination.

Upon exploring the exhibitions many poignant offerings, its easy to see why the imaginative curator landed on the theme. An eclectic mix of eye-openers and statement-making pieces, the often surreal and exploratory pieces of the Biennale speak to its global sensibility and penchant for pushing the envelope (and in some cases, dropping jaws with in-your-face, dreamlike artwork).

Below are some of the most standout pieces on display this year, running the gamut from fantastically nightmarish metamorphic mashups to stark depictions of reality that speak to the horrors of war and the power of resilience:

Occupying the entire Danish Pavilion, Isolottos piece is emblematic of this years Biennale and its surrealist namesake. Depicting a human/horse hybrid lying prone in the center of a stark, messy interior, the piece evokes the dramas of a transhuman world afflicted by the same cycles of life and death, hope and despair, that connect us all.

Larger than life and less fantastical than many of its counterparts, German artist Katharina Fritsch opted for size, grandeur, realism, and attention to detail on this piece. But that doesnt make it any less impactful. Fritsch is also a co-recipient of the Biennales Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement this year.

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Stunning, silver, and described as a sprawling body of entanglements by its creator, this standout in the Korean pavilion is pseudo-realistic a tangled up knot of fantastic proportions that doesnt rely on animate objects and their relationship to the world, yet somehow evokes a feeling of movement with its twisty form.

Formerly located in NYCs High Line in 2019, U.S. artist Simone Leighs Brick House is a majestic bronze sculpture depicting an imposing figure thats part Black woman, part house, registering as a vessel, a dwelling, a space of comfort, and as a site of sanctuarya Black womans body as a site of multiplicity, says Madeline Weisburg. Leigh has also won a Golden Lion for her monumental and momentous sculpture.

Vogels contribution was a jaw-dropper for sure a perfect example of the German artists experimental repertoire, which often raises eyebrows with its metaphoric, sometimes metaphysical statements. Here, Vogel went for the shock factor, depicting a large, cartoonish model of a penis being pulled by a fleet of white giraffes, complete with explanatory plates describing various diseases and conditions like erectile dysfunction. Cartoonish? Yes. Shocking? Definitely.

In referring to the Venice Biennale this year, Wallpaper recently said, Stark reminders of a raging war were never far from sight or mind, and this is most evident in the centerpiece of the Ukrainian pavilion. A piece created by the pavilions curators, this stirring sculpture contains a multitude of stacked sandbags to represent the countrys efforts to protect their art from war damage a reminder thats both stirring and symbolic. Other notable Ukrainian offerings include The Fountain of Exhaustion by artist Pavlo Makov, which only arrived at the exhibition due to the perilous efforts of curator Maria Lanko to transport the piece beginning on the same day Russia began its attack.

Statements and reactions to the war in Ukraine were not limited to the countrys own pavilion. French artist JR presented a large photograph of a young Ukrainian refugee in this statement-maker that puts a human face on the tragedies of war. Its also been featured on the cover of Time and is part of the ongoing exhibition This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom.

A curvy, faceless hybrid thats equal parts sensual and unrecognizably recognizable, Invitation is another potent representation thats visceral and colorful, perfectly in keeping with exhibitions central surrealist theme. Located in the Austrian pavilion, the sculpture is perched above the viewer on a plinth, presented as a figure to be worshipped and admired.

The Venice Biennale 2022 runs from April 23rd through November 22nd, 2022 at the Giardini and the Arsenale.

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Heaven has different meanings for different people. For some transhumanists HEAVEN is an acronym for (HEad Anastomosis VENture), an attempt by an Italian and a Chinese surgeon to transplant a living head onto a living body. They have been working on this project for several years and claim to have had some success with animals.

This ambitious experiment by Sergio Canavero and Xiaoping Ren raises as many philosophical questions as it does neurological and surgical ones. The current issue of the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy examines some of the complications, assuming that it is even possible to remove a head from one body and transplant it onto another body.

One of the contributors, J. Clint Parker, of East Carolina University, asks whether the project contributes to human flourishing:

Dr. Canaveros initiative raises profound questions about what type of life is worth living, and importantly, what type of life is worth living forever. Even if there is something important about enduring, is it good for human beings to endure forever as they are now? The stakes seem to go up the longer one lives, and it seems likely that rather than giving human beings enhanced existence, head transplantation, at least for the foreseeable future, would likely lead to a diminished existence. Even if it worked perfectly, it seems widely improbable that simply anastomosing a new body onto a head would keep the brain perpetually young.

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"RRR" asks the important question: what if two legendary revolutionaries who were active at the same time in colonial India actually met? Better yet, what if they were best friends? Better yet, what if one betrayed the other in a melodramatic twist of fate that ended in a climactic musical showdown that basically ends in them becoming god-like superheroes? That's "RRR," the incredible, insane, maximalist Indian Telugu-language epic directed by S. S. Rajamouli.

"RRR" tells the (fictionalized) story of Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Rama Rao), two real-life revolutionaries who, again, probably weren't best friends in real life. But "RRR" imagines that they were, in the most eye-popping, adrenaline-pumping, hyperstylized action flick of the year.

In "RRR," Raju is a police officer working for the British Raj who is tasked with finding and arresting the legendary Bheem, a sort of John Wick-ian figure (except with more tiger punching) who protects the peaceful Gond tribe, after the British governor forcibly takes one of the Gond tribes' young girls as a pet for his wife. But Raju and Bheem, disguising himself as a lowly Muslim mechanic, unknowingly meet for the first time while rescuing a young boy from a train crash and instantly become best friends by virtue of their equivalent manliness (and also through a musical montage straight out of a rom-com). All this time, Raju doesn't know that Bheem is the man he is hunting, and Bheem doesn't know that Raju is actually an undercover cop working to steal weapons away from the British government. It all climaxes in a fiery inferno of betrayal, more tiger punching, motorcycle-throwing, and a viral musical sequence where Raju and Bheem happily outdance a bunch of white people. Take that, imperialism. (Hoai-Tran Bui)

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